Surviving (and thriving) on $12,000 a year

Is money tight? Maybe it’s the little stuff. Be honest, now — are you popping change into the Coke machine every day? Buying a new hardback book or DVD every couple of weeks? Take a few minutes to read Donna Freedman’s story. She’s living, by choice, on roughly $12,000 a year.

Yahoo’s method for trimming tech support emails

Need to email Yahoo with a support question? Good luck. Like many sites, Yahoo wants you to decipher a series of warped letters and numbers in order to prove you’re human. After six attempts with this one I gave up…

Buy.com email support: 23 days to reply!

At the end of 2006 I purchased a wireless travel router from Buy.com (through a Google Checkout special). A dozen or so days after the purchase, on January 8, 2007, it still hadn’t arrived. I wasn’t too worried, but I dropped Buy.com an email. Today, February 1 — 23 days after I emailed — I [...]